Weird racist posts from dank memes keeps showing up in my feed. Are we doing anything to prevent becoming Voat 2.0? We’re really concerned about Threads and that’s a big unknown. Weird racists already destroyed the last Reddit escape are we concerned about that? Like are we going to make a policy of defederating hate groups?

I’m pretty confident this community is using fake accounts since every post starts at ~20 and then gets down voted after it’s been forced into a bunch of people’s feed.

If not that’s fine I guess but does anyone have a suggestion for somewhere that will?

  • AvgCakeSlice@lemmy.world
    719·
    1 year ago

    Personally, I’m not a huge fan of instance-level defederation as a concept. I’d rather leave it up to individual users to block certain instances/users/communities if they don’t like them. Otherwise you get a situation where admins can go on a power trip of blocking instances or users that they don’t like for petty reasons or just because that instance and it’s users don’t subscribe to the group think of the day.

    I really like the fediverse, but this whole “instances blocking other instances” seems like a good way to kill it quickly, or create useless echo chambers that are as bad if not worse than the centralized platforms that people are seeking to avoid.

    Free speech means having to deal with some bad apples from time to time. Even if people are saying things you don’t agree with, you need to remember that that also means that you’re allowed to say things that others might not agree with without being silenced.